ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Environmental health specialists staying at the Tropicana Casino and Resort during a convention refused to pay part of their $97,000 bill when they allegedly found poor conditions including filthy rooms, cluttered hallways, bedbugs and cockroaches.

"In twenty-five years of conference planning and management, this hotel experience was by far the worst that I have ever gone through," executive director Nelson Fabian, of the Denver-based National Environmental Health Association, was quoted as saying by the Press of Atlantic City.